Biography

In 1960 Tiber Press published a set of four volumes of poetry by Kenneth Koch, John Ashbery, Frank O’Hara and James Schuyler illustrated with original silkscreen prints by Alfred Leslie, Joan Mitchell, Michael Goldberg and Grace Hartigan. Each volume consists of forty pages, jacketed in molded acetate, and all four volumes are boxed together.

"Permenently" by Kenneth Koch with prints by Alfred Leslie"Salute" by James Schuyler with prinys by Grace Hartigan"Odes" by Frank O'Hara with prints by Michael Goldberg"The Poems" By John Ashbery with prints by Joan Mitchell

Each Volume contains 5 silkscreen prints; 1 on the cover, 1 on the title page and 3 interspersed throughout the book. The edition is limited to two hundred numbered copies, signed by the poets and painters.

The following is quoted from the original 1960 Tiber Press publicity materials:

"We are pleased to bring together the production of four poets and four painters who lived in New York City where they knew one another well for a number of years and followed one another's work with involved interest. Tiber Press left the choice of partners in this project to the individuals themselves, and, in collaborating, the poet and painter were acknowledging an awareness of some real relationship between their work.

"The artists came to the studio of Tiber Press, painted and drew directly on the silk screens, and created their prints specifically for these volumes. Each artist made three full-paged illustrations as well as the cover and title page, using four to ten screens for each page.

"The poems were hand set in Walbaum-Antigua by Brüder Hartmann in West Berlin and printed by them on handmade, all rag paper. The flat sheets were brought to New York where the prints were silk screened at Tiber Press.